Increased importance of terrestrial vertebrate seed dispersal in tropical logged forests

A large seed dispersal experiement combining seed tracking and camera trapping at ten forest sites along a wide gradient of historical logging disturbance with AGB ranging between 4.7 and 614.0 Mg ha-1, all part of the established SAFE mammal survey network. Each experiment was run for a consecutive five days using experimental seeds with different hardness (fleshy vs hard) and size (large vs small). Each seed was tracked with a spool.

Authors

• Qie, Lan — Imperial College London
• Telford, Elizabeth — Imperial College London
• Nilus, Reuben — Forest Research Centre, Sabah Forestry Department, Malaysia
• Ewers, Robert — Imperial College London

Keywords

• rodents
• forest regeneration
• scatter hoarding
• rare event
• wind dispersal
• seed consumption
• ecosystem function

Funders

• Natural Environment Research Council (NE/P00363X/1)

Permits

• No permits recorded.

Worksheets

Files

• template_seed_experiment_LanQieJan9_v2.xlsx

Taxa

124 GBIF taxa, 0 sequence-derived taxa.